By Nyang’au Araka The Linda Mwananchi brigade pitched a tent in Kisumu on Sunday, and a single photograph captured there has done what hours of speeches could not. Going by the way the image is flying online, one can agree that it has seduced the national imagination and frozen a restless political moment into pure, […]

By the Idler-in-Chief In the good old days of Nyagenke, the word harambee carried the weight of a grandmother’s walking stick: firm, purposeful, and occasionally used to correct behavior. Those days, the people of Nyagenke said it with a straight back and a cleaner heart, for it meant we pull together, even when pulling was […]